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After Thomas Hicks, an American marathon runner, collapsed right after he won the race in the 1904 Summer
Olympics, people
found that he didn't rumple because of exhaustion but because of the mixture of egg
whites, brandy, and Strychnine, which is now used as an ingredient of Pesticide
. This strange incident isállegedly
the regson why the 1908 London Olympics
forbade athletes to use drugs
during the games. T.
Doping, however, is nothing new in Olympics
. Some of the ancient athletes in Olympics consumed
specially-formulated substances to enhance their performance, ranging from herbs, fungi, to royal jelly and testicles.
This old problem not only has a long history, but also seems to remain and expand in sports. (More than a hundred
Russian athletes are reported to be barred from the 2016 Rio Games as Russians allegedly bribed anti-doping
officials to swap their athletes’ urine samples. Though it's difficult to give exact numbers of athletes who use drugs
to enhance their performance, according to a study in 2015) about one third of outstanding athletes are involved in
doping to some degree. Performance-boosting drugs are not exclusive to Olympians. Any 30-something young man
who is into working out in the gym could be taking inabolic steroids from time to time.
Though each year, athletes and their trainers find new plans to consume or administer drugs, there is not much
change in the types of drugs. The most popular one is anabolic steroids and human growth hormone. Some
common drugs can also be used as bogsters, such as asthma medicine and insulin. As anti-doping agencies lay
down more and more rigid rules for inspection, athletes come up with smarter ways to handle doping, like a
Schemed schedule of using drugs so that their excellence peak émerges before the sports event to avoid being
Notorious as doping may sound, the intention to enhance performance is as positive as ápplying technology to
sports competition. Perhaps the authorities concerned should rethink the “real spirit” of sports and check which
drug or which technology has violated the spirit so as to decide on Consistent and thorough regulations.
tested.
